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Byline or bot? AI-generated ‘journalists’ start to appear in Canada
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AI-generated personas are appearing as journalists on We News, a site that republishes news from more than 100 Canadian cities. The Canadian Press found that Google search returned no results for the site, though it appeared on another search engine; Google did not confirm whether it had delisted We News. The case follows Canadian news outlets removing work attributed to “Daniel Robson” after questions about whether he was a real person.